Sergeants 3 is very pleased to announce the creation of an all-Colonial wargaming convention, Colonial Barracks, to be held in New Orleans in October or November of next year.
This is a natural evolution of the former Colonial Rooms that were held at the Lancaster Host from 2000 – 2009 and is also a response to the continual inquires we receive asking if there's a Sword and Flame convention anywhere. Now we can say there is. We are still in the early stages but you can count on many Colonial games, excellent Game Masters, and wonderful vendors. We will release further information as it becomes available.
We'll leave you now with a bit of Rudyard Kipling, who was a great inspiration in the birth of "The Sword and The Flame" back in 1979:
"Fuzzy-Wuzzy (Soudan Expeditionary Force)
We've fought with many men acrost the seas, An' some of 'em was brave an' some was not: The Paythan an' the Zulu an' Burmese; But the Fuzzy was the finest o' the lot. We never got a ha'porth's change of 'im: 'E squatted in the scrub an' 'ocked our 'orses, 'E cut our sentries up at Suakim, An' 'e played the cat an' banjo with our forces. So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome in the Soudan; You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man; We gives you your certificate, an' if you want it signed We'll come an' 'ave a romp with you whenever you're inclined.
We took our chanst among the Khyber 'ills, The Boers knocked us silly at a mile, The Burman give us Irriwaddy chills, An' a Zulu impi dished us up in style: But all we ever got from such as they Was pop to what the Fuzzy made us swaller; We 'eld our bloomin' own, the papers say, But man for man the Fuzzy knocked us 'oller. Then 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, an' the missis and the kid; Our orders was to break you, an' of course we went an' did. We sloshed you with Martinis, an' it wasn't 'ardly fair; But for all the odds agin' you, Fuzzy-Wuz, you broke the square.……………"
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